[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 4/6] gallium: remove PIPE_CAP_GLSL and enable GLSL unconditionally

Brian Paul brianp at vmware.com
Mon Nov 21 10:47:47 PST 2011


I probably haven't built/tested the Cell driver in nearly a year and 
nobody's reported any bugs or submitted patches for it so I think it's 
effectively dead.

-Brian

On 11/19/2011 10:50 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
> Well, there are three drivers which are pretty much dead:
> - cell
> - failover (co-driver)
> - i965
>
> A lot of work has gone into the cell driver. I wonder if anybody still
> has any plans for it.
>
> Marek
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Keith Whitwell<keithw at vmware.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> On 11/18/2011 11:27 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
>>>> Only i965g does not enable GLSL, but that driver has been
>>>> unmaintained and
>>>> bitrotting for quite a while anyway.
>>>
>>> It doesn't even do GLSL?  I'm pretty shocked, I figured it at least
>>> did
>>> that.  Is it even worth keeping around in the tree?  Seems like it's
>>> just creating extra work for you guys, having to update it for
>>> Gallium
>>> changes...when ultimately, nobody's using it.
>>>
>>
>> I agree -- this was never finished&  isn't likely to be either.
>>
>> Keith
>>
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